Kaur language

{{Short description|Language in Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kaur

|nativename=Ka’ur

|states=Indonesia

|region=Sumatra (Bengkulu)

|speakers=40,000

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Malayic

|iso3=vkk

|glotto=kaur1269

|glottorefname=Kaur

}}

Kaur (Ka’ur) is a Malayic language spoken in Bengkulu province on the southeastern coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.{{cite book |last2=Anderbeck |first2=Karl |last1=McDowell |first1=Jonathan |year=2020 |title=The Malay Lects of Southern Sumatra |series=JSEALS Special Publication |volume=7 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |hdl=10524/52473 |page=25}} It is difficult for speakers of neighboring Central Malay (Bengkulu) to understand. Many speakers are animists.